Nigel Dodds

Nigel Dodds (20 August 1958-) was the Democratic Unionist Party MP for Belfast North from 7 June 2001, succeeding Cecil Walker.

Biography
Nigel Dodds was born in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1958, and he worked as a lawyer before being elected to the Belfast City Council in 1985 as a Democratic Unionist Party politician. He rose in the ranks of the party and served as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1988 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1992, in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 to 2008, and in the House of Commons from 2001.